First is the flavor combinations. Second is the color on the dish. Next one, is it has to be aesthetically right. Who is the star of the plate? When I think of this nouveau gastronomic stuff… Know what I call that? Harry Potter food! What I question is sometimes there are so many elements on [...]
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If you haven’t heard of pastry chef Crystal Cullison, you might begin hearing more about her now. Her milk chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo and other desserts on the menu of the recently opened AltaMare are already gaining fans. Cullison, a 27-year-old Orlando native, got her start young at Emeril’s in Orlando and traveled to [...]
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“Cooking wasn’t my passion; music was,” says Drew Middleton, who moved from San Antonio to Denver in 2001 at the coaxing of a music producer who was interested in signing Middleton’s former band, Medicine, after hearing a demo CD. “We were playing at the Bluebird, at Herman’s and the Gothic, and we were doing all [...]
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Any sizable city — and Boston is no exception — is full of people who know its restaurants. They can tell you who owns what, who the chefs are and which appetizers you just have to try or absolutely must avoid. But there’s a chance that in Boston, no one knows restaurants like Charles M. [...]
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”My goal,” says Sergio Romero, “is to be on a wait as often as possible, to have people love our food and eat it up, and to provide an experience that’s a little different from everything else in Denver.” And the exec chef of Argyll Gastropub fiercely believes that the Cherry Creek hot spot (which [...]
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This past January, local Seattle chef, Seth Caswell, finally opened the doors of his new local and seasonal restaurant, Emmer & Rye. Seth took a moment out of his crazy-busy schedule to answer a couple questions about his new cooking venture, his favorite local purveyors and what inspires him in the kitchen. Foodista
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-interview by John Paul Khoury,CCC Emmy Award winning Chef, cookbook author, and restaurateur Michael Chiarello shared with us his humble hard working beginnings in a California farming community to his success and life in Napa Valley as perhaps the Wine Country’s preeminent food and wine ambassador. Preferred Meats
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In addition to making sauces Chef Mike enjoys baking. He does the entire restaurant’s baking himself, including the bread served with meals. The chef monitors current culinary trends and constantly perfects his dishes. His French-inspired style features simple techniques with dynamic presentations. One of the unique features of the Cypress Room menu is the “By [...]
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Chef Sam Freund, formerly of One Hudson Yards andEleven Madison Park is now gracing the kitchens at One if by Land; one of NYC’s most well known restaurants. He took a few minutes to chat with us about his career, the restaurant and the reasons why his life brought him to OIBL. FriendsEat
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Born to a traditional, Greek, party-loving family on Long Island, Psilakis credits his mom’s love of Mediterranean flavors and his dad’s love of the grill as his greatest influences. But he didn’t go all C.I.A., like many great chefs. Nope, Psilakis earned a degree in accounting and finance, then started waiting tables at T.G.I. Fridays [...]
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